Biology & Life sciences - Table of Contents

Table of Contents - PeerJ (Biology Articles)

Kingman reef

November 10, 2015

Can we measure beauty?

Researchers have shown that an objective computational analysis of photographic images can be used to assess the health of a coral reef. The results have even wider posible application. The authors have also created a website using the techniques developed in this article where you can upload your own image to and get an 'aesthetic' score back.

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November 5, 2015

Characterization of the salivary microbiome in patients with pancreatic cancer

Pedro J. Torres, Erin M. Fletcher, Sean M. Gibbons, Michael Bouvet, Kelly S. Doran, Scott T. Kelley

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1373 PubMed 26587342

November 26, 2015

Persistent microbial dysbiosis in preterm premature rupture of membranes from onset until delivery

Elizabeth A. Baldwin, Marina Walther-Antonio, Allison M. MacLean, Daryl M. Gohl, Kenneth B. Beckman, Jun Chen, Bryan White, Douglas J. Creedon, Nicholas Chia

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1398 PubMed 26644969

November 10, 2015

Metabolic and genomic analysis elucidates strain-level variation in Microbacterium spp. isolated from chromate contaminated sediment

Michael W. Henson, Jorge W. Santo Domingo, Peter S. Kourtev, Roderick V. Jensen, James A. Dunn, Deric R. Learman

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1395 PubMed 26587353

November 12, 2015

Porphyrobacter mercurialis sp. nov., isolated from a stadium seat and emended description of the genus Porphyrobacter

David A. Coil, Jennifer C. Flanagan, Andrew Stump, Alexandra Alexiev, Jenna M. Lang, Jonathan A. Eisen

https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.1400 PubMed 26587357

November 10, 2015

Chemotaxis and degradation of organophosphate compound by a novel moderately thermo-halo tolerant Pseudomonas sp. strain BUR11: evidence for possible existence of two pathways for degradation

Santanu Pailan, Pradipta Saha